Broken Link

I just noticed that Ms. Diamond , Abz Gammon & Speakerdog - Cloudy Dog template link is broken, Mediafire seems to have lost the files. Now all the templates are back online for you to download. I have revised the template for Ms. Diamond too, I hope you will find it easier to build =).

I'm checking back the other links one by one, please let me know if there is another broken link, I will fix it right a way. Mediafire is getting cranky lately, anyone can recommend me a good free hosting site?

Solidboy prototype v2.0

Ahoy everybody! Thank you for all the great comments about the 1st prototype. This is the 2nd prototype developed from the previous design. The dimension and proportions of the parts are all the same. Amendment is made for the carving, especially to the carving depth, facial and spine pattern. We also decided to slightly enlarge the 'diamond' scale texture to increase the shape consistency, resulting a very accurate repetition. I purposely took this picture with natural lighting so you can really observe the texture, no photography trick is used here.. what you see is what I see.. In a few more days we are going to show you the finished look.

Please drop your comment about this second prototype, together we can make more fun projects =D

Fatboy is now Solidboy

Battling with flu and running nose, I'm proud to inform you that Fatboy is making more and more progress now. We arrived in Jepara to meet Mr. Agung who is the sculptor for our long awaited toy. Thanks to the exciting feedbacks from all of you, we are now moving on to the design revision for the second prototype. Hopefully the good Mr. Agung can finish the prototype by end of this month as we are as curious as you are about the revised design.

Another thing is that the wooden Fatboy is now called Solidboy. This is to differentiate the paper toy with the wooden one. Who knows what the future will throw us with.. a concrete Solidboy maybe? So many things to try, so little time =)...


You might be wondering what took us so long and why do we have to trouble our self traveling here and there just to make Solidboy? Well if we tell you that because we are looking for the best sculptor, you might still wonder how good is acceptable skill for our criteria is... Well, a picture tells a thousand words. When we are looking at this wicked piece down here, we know very well that we've found the right place to make Solidboy.

Fatboy Gets Hard!

Actually I'm planning to post this in a few more days as I'm still waiting for another prototype to be made, but I'm just bursting with excitement to show you all with this wooden Fatboy prototype! This wooden fellow here is almost double the size of the paper version, that is 18cm tall x 21 cm wide. 110% hand made by the Javanese craftsman from a little town called Jepara which is known for it's excellent carving skill.

The idea of this wooden Fatboy is to explore with the possibility of creating a Fusion Toy, an experimental toy which combines Urban Toy with Cultural Touch. As most modern toys are made from non environmental friendly plastic and the like, wooden Fatboy is made from eco-friendly waste wood. The traditional pattern is also applied to give a warm and human touch to it. A little something from Indonesia to the world.

I don't really know where can this Fusion Toy experiment lead, but with your input I'm sure it's going to be a fun place to go! Please let me know what you think with this, any kind of feedback is most welcome.

Away Notification

I will be away from designing paper toy for a few weeks because my father is hospitalized. Will surely update you all if I'm ready with new paper toy.Thank you and sorry to everyone who is following my blog.

Help needed!

Sorry to summon you all in this busy holiday season.

I have just submitted Fatboy & Cargo to patchtogether! It's been my biggest dream to produce a vinyl toy, in fact it is the very reason I'm making paper toy... Those vinyl is just to darn expensive to produce... So here is the chance to make it happen I guess. Just like Obama, I need your help to change the dream into reality by voting them Here for Fatboy and Here for Cargo, can't decide who will you vote? You can even vote for both of them Hohohoho... You will be ask to register before you can vote, but I promise you it won't take long and most importantly it won't hurt you, your e-mail and your computer.

OK Ladies & Gentlemen, Thank you so very much for supporting. I hope I didn't interrupt your last minute gift shopping (~_^).

PDF Downloading Problem

I have just fixed the download link and moved my pdf hosting to mediafire, thank you to the genius anonymous who first point me to this matter. I hope things goes fine after this, cant imagine if someday I need to move more than 30 paper toys and relinking it again one by one to this blog...

Please inform me if there is anymore problem & enjoy the download.

Woohoo! Thank you everyone.

What a delightful night! Call me a noob or what ever, when maintaining my newborn blog I am surprised and very excited by the sudden visitors traffic jump. The traffic was so sudden until it lagged the Recent Visitors Feedjit thing.. Just like a little kid getting excited by simple things, I have to admit I cant take my eyes away from those little red dots and asking things like how many of my paper toy get created now... how many people enjoy it... is it too hard to make... and so on...

Anyway, I'm posting this post out of my schedule as I'm not totally ready with my new paper toy yet... A bit busy tomorrow, but after seeing how many of you guys coming to my blog... I will try my very best to finish one design and post it here before Monday.

Once again thank you all and have a fun time!